Getting around Mont-Saint-Hilaire

à portée’s map shows the trip on foot, by bike and by transit from every populated block in Mont-Saint-Hilaire to the nearest grocery store, pharmacy, school, park and other everyday places. It is free, with no account.

residents in 2021: 18,859
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store: 22%
typical walk to a grocery store: 32 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot: 570th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Mont-Saint-Hilaire

Each block is coloured by the trip from it to the nearest place of the kind you pick, on foot, by bike or by transit. Move the map, or open it in à portée for any address and all 29 kinds of place.

Transit times are for a weekday at peak hours. A free plus account adds a mode and a time limit for each place, and transit at night on weekdays and at midday on Saturday and Sunday.

Getting around Mont-Saint-Hilaire

The share of Mont-Saint-Hilaire residents within a trip of each place, and the typical trip, by each way of getting there the free map offers.

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	11%typical 32 min	41%typical 12 min	11%typical 31 min
Pharmacy	17%typical 27 min	53%typical 10 min	17%typical 23 min
Park	82%typical 6 min	95%typical 2 min	82%typical 6 min
Elementary school	13%typical 24 min	62%typical 8 min	13%typical 22 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	22%typical 32 min	73%typical 12 min	22%typical 31 min
Pharmacy	28%typical 27 min	74%typical 10 min	29%typical 23 min
Park	93%typical 6 min	97%typical 2 min	93%typical 6 min
Elementary school	25%typical 24 min	79%typical 8 min	26%typical 22 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	32%typical 32 min	93%typical 12 min	33%typical 31 min
Pharmacy	38%typical 27 min	94%typical 10 min	41%typical 23 min
Park	96%typical 6 min	98%typical 2 min	97%typical 6 min
Elementary school	42%typical 24 min	85%typical 8 min	43%typical 22 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	45%typical 32 min	96%typical 12 min	47%typical 31 min
Pharmacy	56%typical 27 min	97%typical 10 min	60%typical 23 min
Park	97%typical 6 min	99%typical 2 min	98%typical 6 min
Elementary school	66%typical 24 min	98%typical 8 min	77%typical 22 min

Cycling and transit follow the street network, hills included. A transit trip includes the walk to and from the stops, at the median departure of a weekday morning peak, and is never slower than walking the whole way. Within 15 minutes means under 16: times are rounded down to the whole minute.

Mont-Saint-Hilaire in numbers

22% of Mont-Saint-Hilaire residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place	10 min	15 min	20 min	30 min	Typical walk
Grocery store	11%	22%	32%	45%	32 min
Pharmacy	17%	28%	38%	56%	27 min
Park	82%	93%	96%	97%	6 min
Elementary school	13%	25%	42%	66%	24 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Quebec and Canada

Place	Mont-Saint-Hilaire	Quebec	Canada	Rank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store	22%	49%	45%	570th of 1,000182nd of 259 in Quebec
Pharmacy	28%	49%	51%	513th of 1,000156th of 259 in Quebec
Park	93%	83%	82%	215th of 1,00059th of 259 in Quebec
Elementary school	25%	53%	55%	540th of 1,000170th of 259 in Quebec

Share of Mont-Saint-Hilaire residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store

Mont-Saint-Hilaire Quebec

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Mont-Saint-Hilaire in population, and the share of their residents within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store. Communities are 2021 census subdivisions (cities, towns, counties and other municipalities), compared within their municipal boundaries.

Community	Residents	Grocery within 15 min
Colwood	18,961	52%
Middlesex Centre	18,928	9%
Mont-Saint-Hilaire	18,859	22%
Camrose	18,772	41%
Quispamsis	18,768	9%

More places across the La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM census division

The La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM census division has 131,803 residents, 14% of them in Mont-Saint-Hilaire. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

Convenience store46%
Café35%
Bakery17%
Library11%
Playground74%
Childcare52%
Community centre18%
Clinic25%

Other communities in the La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM area

Beside each community is the share of its residents who can reach a grocery store within a 15-minute walk.

Shares of 2021 residents of populated census blocks, on foot along the street network. How the walking times are computed

Travel times are our best estimates from open data published October 8, 2026 and can contain errors. Walking and cycling times are rounded down, so “within 15 minutes” means under 16. Check before an important decision, and tell us if something looks wrong.

Questions

Is Mont-Saint-Hilaire walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Mont-Saint-Hilaire, 22% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Mont-Saint-Hilaire ranks 570th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Mont-Saint-Hilaire by bike?

By bike, 73% of Mont-Saint-Hilaire residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 74% a pharmacy, 97% a park and 79% an elementary school. On foot, 22% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 12 min by bike and 32 min on foot. Cycling times follow the street network, hills included; they don’t say whether a street is safe or comfortable to ride.

Does transit help you reach everyday places in Mont-Saint-Hilaire?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 22% of Mont-Saint-Hilaire residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 22% on foot and 73% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes 31 min by transit and 32 min on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk.

Is Mont-Saint-Hilaire a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 22% of residents reach a grocery store, 28% a pharmacy, 93% a park and 25% an elementary school. These figures count each place separately; open the map to see how many residents have all four within 15 minutes, for the places you choose.

How does Mont-Saint-Hilaire compare with communities of a similar size?

In Mont-Saint-Hilaire, 22% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 52% in Colwood, 9% in Middlesex Centre, 41% in Camrose and 9% in Quispamsis.

Where does this data come from?

Walking, cycling and transit times follow the street network, hills included, from each populated 2021 census block to the nearest place of each kind. Transit uses the operators’ published timetables at the weekday morning peak. Places come from OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, with health care and schools checked against Statistics Canada’s open databases. Shares are weighted by 2021 population. Data published 8 October 2026. How the times are computed

Mont-Saint-Hilaire in brief

Province: Quebec
Census division: La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM
Census subdivision code: 2457035
Residents in 2021: 18,859
Data published: 8 October 2026

Provinces: Natural Earth.

Elsewhere

Sources: places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and the Overture Maps Foundation; census blocks, 2021 populations and municipal boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada under the Open Government Licence – Canada; transit times from the operators’ published timetables; elevation from Natural Resources Canada; province outlines from Natural Earth; links from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Figures derived from OpenStreetMap are under the ODbL. Data sources and licences

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